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The avenue that never sleeps vs. the quiet building a few doors down.
Search any NYC address: Noise, honks, and much more.
One number is not enough. We show you all we've identified: Walked vs modelled, split by the source of the noise.
The avenue that never sleeps vs. the quiet building a few doors down.
Buses, trucks and the avenues that carry them: the steady rumble a street's shape decides.
Most noise data comes from highway sensors and 311 complaints. Ours comes from the sidewalk.
180+ walks since June 2026 and 90+ hours on the pavement, at one measurement a second, with a meter in hand. Nothing scraped from a sensor on a highway.
Brooklyn Heights-Cobble Hill, Midtown, East Harlem North and Spuyten Duyvil-Kingsbridge: nearly 24 miles on foot, 87% to 97% of the streets in each.
A model fit on those walks fills in the streets we haven't reached yet, using street width, distance to an arterial, distance to the corner, and how built-up the block is. The block card tells you which one you're looking at.
A real report from real walks: 8.81 miles of East Harlem North on foot, 11,290 readings, over ten visits. Read both pages here, or open the PDF.
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